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The Recreational Fishing Trust has offered an amount of $9,996 for weed control and replanting on lands fronting Kangaroo River and Broughton Creek to improve the habitat of Australian Bass.  The primary weed to be targeted in these areas is privet.

The work in the first year will mostly occur at sites in the upper catchments of three of the main tributaries: Upper Kangaroo River, Upper Brogers Creek and Bundewallah Creek.  These sites include:

• The reserve at the Upper Kangaroo River hall;

• The Kangaroo River crossing at Kellys Road;

• The Reserve at Hampden Bridge;

• The Brogers Creek Reserve; and

• Two Reserves on Bundewallah Creek.

At each site, privet control and replanting will return a section of the creek bank to a more natural state.  Replanting will focus on fringing and overhanging vegetation, which promotes additional food sources for Australian Bass.

It is expected that all sites will allow for public access to the river system for Bass fishers.

In addition to promoting Bass habitat, the works will support Council and Community efforts to remove the privet seed source from several upper catchments, which will assist in its long term control downstream.

The funding from the Recreational Fishing Trust is being matched by an amount of $9828 in cash and in kind contribution from Shoalhaven City Council.

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